Dogs. Dogs and knives. Dogs, knives and carving. Dogs, knives, carving and cooking. Where will that get us? Well, it gives us four words: Dogs, knives, carving and cooking. If Barbara Woodhouse were still alive, which she hasn't been for almost twenty years now, she would not have liked that combination of words. Not one bit.

Here, though, is an article that brings all those words together. It does so in a surprising and frankly ingenious way, which manages to avoid bloodshed altogether.

We weren't sure what to call this submission. We were moved by the sheer joy it exuded at the thought of beginning another year of playing in the great outdoors. But in the end we went with the stove thing, because stoves can boil water, and boiled water can make tea, and without tea, there would be nothing. Oh yes, and it really is a very interesting stove.